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What Modigliani painted – or Brancusi-like (lung disease despite) sculpted – is kept in the museums of our world like private religious shrines. Not only the famous lying and sitting nude acts shortly before his death in 1920, but also the many small portraits of previous studies. His style of development is more influenced by the Renaissance or African art, not influenced by the then current Cubism.

Bohemians have always to die aged 35? “You do not live until you really know you’re alive.” The Modigliani-quote is not only a tautology, but one would also know that the artist is consumed with all the fervor, perhaps exhausted too early. Not only to the love, even the drugs he was said to be fond of. Not because of a deliberate development of an art-theory artist within a clique (like many of his contemporaries) Modigliani went to work but: In the center of his work was his humanity, his erotic feelings, which he tried to express authentically, obeying no fashion sought.

This was probably not without any conflicts and strong, disturbing emotions: His young companion Jeanne Hébuterne, though pregnant, made suicide. Just only one day after his far too early death of tuberculosis. I would have wished, that they both lived longer, loving each other …
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for to translate the German part into English
I’ve added an html-code (only google-machine):translate good German to bad English
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Was Modigliani malte (oder Brancusi-ähnlich trotz Lungenkrankheit bildhauerte) ist in den Museen unserer Welt wie Heiligtümer einer privaten Religion aufbewahrt. Nicht nur die berühmten liegenden und sitzenden Akte kurz vor seinem Tode 1920, sondern auch die vielen kleinen vorhergehenden Porträt-Studien. Seine Stilentwicklung zeigt sich mehr beeinflusst von der Renaissance oder afrikanischer Kunst, keinesfalls jedoch vom damals aktuellen Kubismus.

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Maybe nowadays the museums should not only buy paintings but also photos?
Once I organized an online virtual photo museum
titled THE RESTAURANT GALLERY.
The photos have not been on the wall in reality,
but the artists gave permission,
to put their artworks via photo-shop processing as a fake
into the frame on the wall.
Still original content of that frame in my favorite restaurant:
OLYMPIA by Edouard Manet …
title=”Sakwut Sansaneeyashewin by Frizztext, on Flickr